Angry Birds dev Rovio rolling out in-app payment platform with carrier integration
We're sure Finnish software shop Rovio is looking for every way imaginable to capitalize on the immense success of the Angry Birds franchise, and part of that will apparently involve in-app purchases, presumably to buy and download additional content on the fly -- but it sounds like they won't be using any third-party frameworks to do that. Instead, the company's putting together its own micropayment framework and partnering up with carriers to cut them in on the profit, turning first to Finnish network Elisa with new content for Angry Birds' Android build in early 2011.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: angry, app-ecosystem, developers, ecosystem, elisa, immense, mobile, party, platform, prospect, rovio
Windows Phone 7 will work with third party browsers, so long as they’re based on IE? (video)
Internet Explorer not stirring your cup of Windows Phone 7 tea correctly? Well, you now have an alternative in the form of a new browser that's arrived in the Marketplace: Browser+.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: accessible, app, browser, browser plus, drive, option, party, wp7
White HTC EVO 4G leaves the Best Buy nest, migrates to Sprint stores
Once a Best Buy exclusive , the white version of HTC's still-badass EVO 4G is finally making its way into actual Sprint retail locations, the carrier's website, and other third party stores for the same $199 on contract after $100 mail-in rebate as usual. Gives us a good opportunity to levy the same complaint we'd levied before -- that the front of the phone should be white, not just the back -- but hey, at least passers-by will know you're stylin' when you've got it held to your face. White HTC EVO 4G leaves the Best Buy nest, migrates to Sprint stores originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:25:00 EST
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buy, Carrier, engadget, entry, evo4g, finally-making, htc, leaves-the-best, party, phone, rebate-as-usual, retail, sprint, the-carrier
Samsung Continuum first hands-on
If surprise was the focus of the event, we'd say the Samsung Android-powered, Verizon-exclusive (and, alas, Bing-driven) Continuum reveal was a comedy of errors -- but who cares now that we've got our hands on the Galaxy S phone, secondary ticker and all. The Android buttons themselves, as it turns out, are on the display as well -- basically, it's one huge display
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: accident-since, battery, bing-driven, continuum, display, engadget, entry, galaxy, Grip, party, result, the-display, verizon, vzw
T-Mobile Comet sends $9.99 shot across the bow of dumbphones
The argument used to be that carriers' higher pricing for smartphone data plans were what kept them out of the low end, regardless of the upfront on-contract cost -- but now that T-Mobile has rolled out a 200MB / $10 package , phones like the Comet -- a T-Mobile branded version of the Huawei Ideos announced at IFA -- might actually pose a serious threat to the livelihoods of dumbphones everywhere. Why's that
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bow, checked-it-out, comet, downside, froyo, higher-pricing, huawei-ideos, ideos, mobile-comet, party, radio, the-livelihoods, waves
BlackBerry PlayBook Simulator Beta hands-on
Sure, you might have to be at Adobe's MAX conference to actually hold a PlayBook in your hand... but RIM's offering us all the next best thing by turning a beta version of its PlayBook simulator loose on devs way, way in advance of the tablet's release -- ostensibly in the hopes of drumming up a beefy third-party app catalog in time for retail
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: beta, BlackBerry, engadget, keyboard, machine, minutes, party, seriously-very, video, windows
HTC HD7 review
The screen that just keeps on going meets the OS that refuses to fit on a single display. Yes, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, like Windows Mobile 6.5 and Android before it, is getting treated with a 4.3-inch display from HTC for its launch party. The aptly titled HD7 is, by virtue of Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements, mostly just a stretched-out version of its WP7 contemporaries: it offers the standard 800 x 480 res, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, 576MB of RAM, and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a 720p movie mode.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: benefit, contemporaries, entry, getting-treated, microsoft, party, phone, qualcomm, review, windows-mobile, windows-phone, xbox live
‘Managed access’ trial screens prison phone calls without jamming the airwaves
Yeah, we've been to this rodeo before... kind of . If you'll recall, prisons have had one heck of a time getting the Feds to sign off on a new law that would allow cellphone jamming equipment to be installed on their premises, and due to a 1934 law that allows only federal agencies to jam public airways, they've had little choice but to sit and wait .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: criminal, eying-something, jail, jam, jammed, jon, make-the-cut, mississippi, ozmint, party, premises, their-premises
Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines: ‘we don’t need any more fart apps’
Apple definitely surprised us this morning by relaxing its restrictions on third-party iOS development tools and publishing its app review guidelines, but that's nothing compared to the almost shockingly blunt tone of the guidelines themselves. Grab the PDF for yourselves at the source link now and check out the highlights after the break. Continue reading Apple's App Store Review Guidelines: 'we don't need any more fart apps' Apple's App Store Review Guidelines: 'we don't need any more fart apps' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:58:00 EST.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, apple, appstore, development, engadget, fart, grab-the-pdf, highlights, iphone, party, source, store-review
Dell Streak procures a hacked-up mini USB adapter, gets friendly with your dusty cables
Even if you can look beyond the SIM lock and the aging Android 1.6 OS on the Dell Streak , there's still one irksome problem: the lack of a mini or micro-USB port (Dell clearly missed the USB party last summer). Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, John from Linux Slate decided to build an adapter for his tabletphone's dock connector, which he confirmed to be PDMI instead of a proprietary design. The procedure was simple: John cut up his Streak's cable plug, soldered a mini USB socket onto the board, and housed the new assembly within the Streak's cable clip.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Cables, dell streak, entry, mini-usb, miniusb, onto-the-board, party, port, result, streak, tabletphone, usb